Religion: Muted Trumpets in Dixie

Retired Railroad Conductor Bryant of Lebanon Junction, Ky. is a troubled
man. Last week in The Review and Expositor, journal of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he told why.

"Throughout the first sixty years of my life," wrote Bryant, "I never
questioned but that Peter's confession that 'God is no respecter of
persons' referred exclusively to the differences among white persons.
Neither did I question that segregation was Christian and that it
referred to the separation of white and Negro people. Three years ago these views
were completely transformed. I became...